In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is ...

Scientists reveal that the rock stacks forming Australia's Twelve Apostles bear evidence of ancient earthquakes and warm seas ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

This Pennsylvania park offers a rare chance to hunt for fossils dating back 450 million years, making it a must-visit for ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

From rock layers to radioactive decay, scientists use a blend of dating techniques to piece together Earth's history. Relative dating reads the sequence of layers, while absolute dating measures time ...

The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field. By Jack Tamisiea On a sandstone cliff in South ...